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Originally Posted by issybird
OK, here's a thought on water: could it have implied tides and a women's menstrual cycle? Tying into specifically women's issues including hysteria? At that, people still invoke "raging hormonal imbalances" to justify keeping women out of positions of power.
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I had vaguely noticed the many references to water, but not lined them up, as it were, to realise just how many there were. Thinking about it now (thank you
issybird) I see the link with death which appears all through western literature at least.
Crossing the Jordan of course, the river Styx, a dead person buried with a coin to give the ferryman. (On a personal note, I remember that when my father was dying, he tried to get out of bed because he said he had to cross over the water. So the literary/mythological references appear to have arisen from something deep within ourselves.)